They bring a pain beyond any suffering of the body; dilemmas unsolvable save by anguish and loss.

In the end, here lies the unsolvable dilemma for the Chinese authorities in Tibet.

Besides referring to an unsolvable logical dilemma, Catch-22 is invoked to explain or justify the military bureaucracy.

"Homelessness is an unsolvable dilemma," Mr. Imislund says.

The dispute - others maintain it was intentional deception - evolved out of an nearly unsolvable dilemma: Does confirming the number of victims raise false hopes among relatives who might not get their loved ones back because sharks and crabs and bluefish were eating them on the ocean floor?

This faced them with an unsolvable dilemma.

Wren had brought the discussion to where she wanted it; she had the Council listening to her, looking for an answer to what seemed an unsolvable dilemma.

Spain's recently-elected Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, faces a potentially unsolvable economic dilemma.

What had been just a question of using my greater strength to force Peewee to behave was now an unsolvable dilemma.